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Posted by paimapi 6 hours ago

DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers(www.eff.org)
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Oscalemor 2 hours ago|
I knew I would reach the top of some list, not the top list I wanted to be at but damn the phone is ringing non stop from DraftKings.
joosters 3 hours ago||
Why would you even need AI to target losing customers? It's easy enough to identify them without anything clever: just look at their PnL or EV.
Cyclone_ 4 hours ago||
I used to work in adtech and someone in sales told me that DraftKings and FanDuel did not like being referred to as gambling companies. They always wanted to convince people that it wasn't gambling, even though it's so obvious that's what it is.
skwirl 2 hours ago|
This is out of date. They didn’t like to be referred to as gambling companies when it was just daily fantasy sports. There was legitimate debate as to how much of daily fantasy sports was skill and that mattered to its legality in many states. There’s no debate over whether sportsbook betting is gambling.
awad 3 hours ago||
DraftKings also owns JackPocket, in case you want to play your local state lotto without ever leaving the house.
duxup 59 minutes ago||
Expanding / legalized sports gambling in the US was a terrible mistake.
orkdoqnsiwnsj 3 hours ago||
On a related note: Brasil has just passed a bill to ban gambling platforms and “””influencers””” are crying left right and centre for losing their sweet sweet sponsor blood money. Music to the ears, almost.
999900000999 6 hours ago||
Online dating apps do the same exact thing. When you try to disengage they spam you with notifications and emails saying a bunch of people want to talk to you.

You actually login or god forbid pay for a subscription, all of your matches are disabled bot accounts. I actually have a theory that daiting apps are responsible for a significant portion if not most of those bots.

I’m actually more willing to work on a gambling or prediction product vs a dating app.

At least everyone knows gambling is a scam.

SoftTalker 5 hours ago|
Distill it down even further: everything online that promises any kind of reward is a scam.
triceratops 5 hours ago||
Why only online?
999900000999 4 hours ago|||
Offline it takes a lot more effort.

It’s much harder for a 49 year old man to pretend to be 23 year old woman to try to get you to buy feet pics in real life vs online.

someonebaggy 4 hours ago|||
Because offline it's possible to punch a scammer in the face. There are still many offline scams, but not as many.
baggachipz 6 hours ago||
This should come as no surprise to anybody. They have every incentive to exploit those who can't resist their offering. Gambling is the new tobacco industry.
JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago||
> This should come as no surprise

We need a better way of responding to journalism evidencing what was previously suspected and accepted.

computerex 6 hours ago||
Hooray capitalism!
rukuu001 2 hours ago||
Spend any time examining the behavior of gambling companies and this will be utterly unsurprising.

The way they operate their business is deeply immoral.

They know they sell an addictive product and take full advantage of that.

Yhippa 3 hours ago|
It's like "customer success", weaponized.
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